Displaying Favorites MS Explorer style

[Oliwally]

Hi,

Is there a way to show my favorites in  a permanent tree type arrangement rather than through the favorites window? Like the standard windows explorer favorites - always visible and ready to go?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Oli

[Mathias (Author)]

You got the favorites under the virtual path FAV: that is listed in the tree and device dropdown and on the device toolbar
You also have it as a popup on right click on the path area.
Or when you press Star button
Or Hot key Alt+Back

[Oliwally]

You got the favorites under the virtual path FAV: that is listed in the tree and device dropdown and on the device toolbar

Yes I found this - that helps. But unless I lock the tab it keeps changing. Still - a great feature, especially if I do lock the tab and then use Ctrl + right arrow to open the link in the right hand panel. Is there a mouse shortcut for opening the link in another tab? Middle click should work, but it seems to have no effect when the Tab is locked - only works on unlocked tabs and then the link will be opened in a new tab in the other panel.

You also have it as a popup on right click on the path area.

That's a good one! I didn't know about that. Very helpful.

Or when you press Star button

Yes that's the window that pops up - also works well.

Thanks again for helping out. Great program! Second day using it today & getting used to it. I've moved to Multi Commander from another 'commander' program because it kept crashing. I'm also finding MC to be faster than the other program. Nice work!

[Mathias (Author)]

You got the favorites under the virtual path FAV: that is listed in the tree and device dropdown and on the device toolbar

Yes I found this - that helps. But unless I lock the tab it keeps changing. Still - a great feature, especially if I do lock the tab and then use Ctrl + right arrow to open the link in the right hand panel. Is there a mouse shortcut for opening the link in another tab? Middle click should work, but it seems to have no effect when the Tab is locked - only works on unlocked tabs and then the link will be opened in a new tab in the other panel.

Since FAV: is a virtual fake filesystem, But is is a bit limited, So some things in MC fails on it.
I will check If I can make FAV: fake folders better

Normally Middle button opens new folder as a new Tab (Configurable under mouse settings in Explorer Panel settings)

You can get it to open a new tab on from a locked tab that is showing FAV:
There is a settings in Explorer Panel under the "Tab" section
 [.] Open new tab when going to new location if tab is locked

Also it is possible to create a script for it that take the focus item (from FAV) and then go to that in the other tab..

Create a UserDefinedCommand of type MultiScript and enter the code below. Then save the command and add a hotkey/button/menu

Code: [Select]

@var $folder = GetSourceFocusPath();
MC.Explorer.Goto TARGET="{$folder}"Then when you are under FAV: and have a favorites in focus press the hotkey/button/menu
And it will open that path in the active panel on the other side.

[Oliwally]

You can get it to open a new tab on from a locked tab that is showing FAV:
There is a settings in Explorer Panel under the "Tab" section
 [.] Open new tab when going to new location if tab is locked

Yes! That works like a charm. Just what I need.

Also it is possible to create a script for it that take the focus item (from FAV) and then go to that in the other tab..

Well, I guess I don't need that, now that the other thing works. Good to know though.

Mathias, you're a magic man! Thanks very much for your prompt replies and great project.

Kind regards,

Oli